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Direct linkTomlin, Carol; Wright, Cecile; Mocombe, Paul C. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2013
This article synthesizes Marxian conceptions of identity construction within capitalist relations of production with the Wittgensteinian notion of "language games" to offer a more appropriate relational framework within which scholars ought to understand the Black-White academic achievement gap in America, the United Kingdom, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Blacks, Whites, Academic Achievement
Mocombe, Paul C. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This essay explores how social psychologically the social structure of capitalist inequality has given rise to the Black-White achievement gap. This critical understanding is a reinterpretation of the "burden of acting White" hypothesis, and suggests that research on the achievement gap should focus on how the Black-White achievement gap is more a…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Academic Achievement, Social Structure, Peer Influence
Mocombe, Paul C. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
Examining the social attitudes and practical consciousness of young black American youth through an analysis of the 1999 rap song, "Bling bling," by the Hot Boyz, in this work, I review the oppositional culture hypothesis as it pertains to the black/white achievement gap, describe the current debate, and reinterpret the hypothesis within a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, Social Attitudes, Underachievement
